About the nature we face
On Black Sunday in 1935 a black wall of dust swallowed the American Great Plains. The Dust Bowl was neither pure natural disaster nor pure… Read More »The Dust Bowl: When Drought and the Plow Buried the Great Plains in Dust
About 695 people died across three states in just three and a half hours. Why did the 1925 Tri-State Tornado become the deadliest in U.S.… Read More »The 1925 Tri-State Tornado: Why It Became the Deadliest Tornado in U.S. History
Let me explain about flowers similar to cherry blossoms. 1. Plum blossom Plum blossoms are one of the flowers that represent spring, along with cherry… Read More »Flowers similar to cherry blossom
After the blossoms fall, two red dots appear on the petioles of a cherry tree’s young leaves. These are extrafloral nectaries, and the tree uses… Read More »The Hidden Nectaries on a Cherry Tree’s Leafstalk: Calling Ants from the Leaves, Not the Flowers
Though named ‘Japanese cornel,’ sansuyu has been an East Asian medicine for over two thousand years. Follow its path from the Shennong Bencao Jing and… Read More »How Sansuyu Became a Medicinal Herb: The Textual History and Chemistry of Cornus officinalis
Peaches and nectarines are not different fruits but the same species separated by a single gene. From the five-petal flowers that open before the leaves,… Read More »The Secret of Peach Blossoms and Peach Fuzz: Design in Five Petals and Tiny Hairs
